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Six countries, six individuals: resourceful patients navigating medical records in Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Sweden and the USA
oleh: Sara Riggare, Selina Brudnicki, Maho Isono, Cecilia Rodriquez, Louise K Schaper, Jan Walker, Tom Delbanco
Format: | Article |
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Diterbitkan: | BMJ Publishing Group 2020-09-01 |
Deskripsi
In the absence of international standards, widely differing attitudes and laws, medical and social cultures strongly influence whether and how patients may access their medical records in various settings of care. Reviewing records, including the notes clinicians write, can help shape how people participate in their own care. Aided at times by new technologies, individual patients and care partners are repurposing existing tools and designing innovative, often ‘low-tech’ ways to collect, sort and interpret their own health information. To illustrate diverse approaches that individuals may take, six individuals from six nations offer anecdotes demonstrating how they are learning to collect, assess and benefit from their personal health information.